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Humor won’t save our economy – unless perhaps Stephen Colbert starts using all that Super PAC money he’s collecting to help pay down the national debt. But laughter sure beats screaming as our fortunes cling to a Wall Street rollercoaster that’s generally out of our control.

We’ve found some welcome moments of mirth in recent days thanks to a handful of funny videos that tackle the growing financial uncertainty – including a spot from Jimmy Kimmel, who, noting Wall Street’s wild fluctuations as of late, cracked, “Our economy is like Oprah’s belt.”

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In an inspired piece of absurdity, Kimmel tries to get the lowdown on the Asian stock markets by sending a guy in a Chewbacca suit onto the streets of Los Angeles to interview folks in Asian supermarkets.

We’re getting an even bigger kick out of a video, posted on Funny or Die, in which an actor playing President Obama announces a Kickstarter campaign to eliminate the national debt and jumpstart the economy.

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“Pledge $5,000 and I’ll let you sit in my big, comfy chair in the Oval Office,” he says. For $100,000, you get to be president for a day: “You can come and just chill in my kicka-- house, call some prime ministers, the whole shebang.”

But our favorite of the recent offerings stars another authority figure, playing himself: Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich. In the video, posted on College Humor, Reich explains, grade by grade, what further downgrades of the country’s credit rating would mean.

A sampling: “At AA-, every Bonefish Grill in the nation will become a Red Lobster….[at A-] all Red Lobsters will become Long John Silvers.”

Take a break from tracking the latest in the stock markets and check out the videos below at a time when we all could use a good laugh: